What is the conservative end game? The slavers are still with us

[ProfessorPlum]

I've been thinking for quite a while now about what is the conservative end game for life in America. And I think, it is, ultimately, complete and total slavery.

Everything that the right wing supports makes life a cheat, a scam, a con - a person is forced/cajoled/propagandized into trading their time, effort, skill, youth, and health, away in return for . . . what? Some magic beans. An ever diminishing wage that buys ever diminishing housing or food. An ever costlier education that returns ever diminishing jobs. The powers that be will demand more and more and return less and less until everyone works for nothing at all. Your needs will be met, barely, just enough to keep you producing, and not a mouthful more.

Nothing better can be expected until American workers stand up for themselves, and there is _zero_ evidence that most Americans have any clue about where things are headed, except for a vague "anger" that gets turned on whoever the media tell them to hate.

Our productivity is so high now that Americans should be able to live a life of relative ease, with three day work-weeks, and still provide for their families. But we are having the wealth that we generate stolen and conned away from us.

The economic lash, and the boot forever smashing in our faces, await us if we don't turn this around some way. We are becoming one huge penal slave colony, and the people holding the whip will have no mercy on us.

[Anansi1171]

1. Big big K&R!-nt

[jeff47]

2. I think it's wrong to assume they have an endgame in mind.

Every single one of their policies and plans are entirely short-term.

Let's start a war in Iraq. What do you mean the VA is underfunded?
Let's ban all abortion. What do you mean the population is exploding?
Let's cut taxes. What do you mean we have a budget deficit?
Let's deregulate banks. What do you mean the economy just imploded?
Let's repeal the ACA. What do you mean we have to have a replacement?
Let's alienate anyone who isn't an older, white male. What do you mean our base is dying out?

An endgame requires long-term thinking. Republicans have not demonstrated they have the ability to do that.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. I disagree

ALEC has been working overtime, with its eye on the long game, to push through the worst legislation at the state and local levels for a long time now.

ALEC and the chamber of commerce can see the endgame.

[GoneFishin]

9. The resulting problems are all burdens on the little people. Leaving us less time and resources

to bother them during their pool side lounging and daily investment portfolio updates from their stockbrokers.

[GoneFishin]

3. To crush the middle class into an underclass which will do as they are told if they want to eat.

When people protested the Vietnam war and screwed with the overlords' profits, when women and minorities got the vote and robbed the rich white guys' god given right to choose our leaders for us, TPTB realized they needed to restrict our access to money, education, and free time for political activism.

[ProfessorPlum]

6. Exactly. And, now, Jeb Bush demonstrates our reward by commanding the plebes to

"work harder" and "work longer hours" if we want to have a good economy.

They have only one goal - to make people work as hard as they can for as long as they can, and give them nothing in return.

[mia]

4. Their propaganda and promotion of assault weapons is turning our youth into assassins.

They inspire resentment and rage and are trying to pit the lower ranks against one another. I know far too many people who are arming themselves and shoring up their supplies for the "end times". Those shoot-em-up video games are for practice.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. That's kind of a weird contradiction

Arming people to the teeth is a weird strategy for the overlords - but on the other hand, I guess they figure that those arms will never be turned on them - that the people can be made to use them against each other easily enough, and that if they ever do turn to the powerful, they will have alternatives (the military, other weapons) that will make firearms not effective in an uprising.

[Octafish]

8. History is on their side.

In the Orwellian sense:

Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, share a rich and powerful moment -- and what looks like some inside official information --back in the day.



Rothschild and Freshfields founders had links to slavery, papers reveal

George W. Bush’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Walker Was a Slave Trader

If this was in the news, people might not wonder why the Have-Mores keep getting ahead while the 99-percent must make-do with Austerity and working to 70.